Month: June 2008

Here we see the boss inspecting the updated Nisus Writer Pro manuals.

He is a very tough editor. Nothing escapes his keen eyes.

I try not to link to things that have been linked everywhere, but this one is just too good to pass up.

In case you have not seen this, the Seattle PI’s Todd Bishop posted the full text of an email that Bill Gates wrote to Jim Allchin (then VP of the MS Platform Group, which was responsible for XP and Vista, and servers I believe) and others.

Seems Bill had a lot of trouble downloading MS Moviemaker from the Microsoft.com site and let loose on the folks responsible. Man, I would hate to be on the receiving end of this rant.

Here is the money quote: “What an absolute mess.”

OS X has a lot of issues, but after reading this, I am glad I primarily use Macs.

Whenever I pass through my local Cost Plus World Market, a place of wonderful things, I always take a walk through the candy aisle. Obviously we’re pocky fans around here, but I’ve always been more a gummy man myself. It might be my German heritage, but indeed Haribo macht mich froh.

So upon a recent visit a happy “oooh” (or perhaps OOo) was uttered when I beheld the king of gummy bears:

That greeting card is standard size mind you. Each bear packs in a whopping 105 grams of sugar- let the gummy feast begin!

Well, he isn’t actually local, but he did work here.

Charles Jolley, formerly of Nisus, creator of LinkBack, currently at SproutIt and Apple, is making a lot of news these days. He and the .Mac team have been pretty busy over the last 18 months or so, working on MobileMe, the .Mac replacement. They are using SproutCore, which is something Charles was working on before joining Apple. SproutCore is a javascript framework that allows you to build web apps with very little code.

Now that Charles has made the big time, I just wish he would pay me the money he owes me. I mean, I don’t think $1.63 is too much to ask for, you know?

Hey, what do you know? Snow Leopard is real! I had my doubts, but I was wrong. Happily so.

It’s too bad that Apple didn’t reveal much about 10.6 in the Jobs keynote. From the stuff that was revealed, though, I find the Exchange support to be the most interesting. Sounds like Apple is subtly going after the business, or Enterprise market. By supporting Exchange out of the box, you eliminate one huge barrier to using Macs at a large corporation.

Effectively, they are beating Microsoft over the head with their own tool.

Mind you, this is a company that has said repeatedly that it really isn’t interested in the Enterprise market. Right.

They have a funny way of showing their disinterest.

Photo by Milan Trykar. Courtesy of Snow Leopard Trust.

So here I was, trying to do something to heal the rift between Heidi and Lauren on The Hills. Suddenly, I realized it was almost time for WWDC.

Mind you, I wasn’t really that interested, since it seemed to me all of the chatter was about the iPhone. When people discussed the conference, all I could hear was “iPhone blah, blah, blah .Mac blah, blah, blah” and I quickly tuned out. That is, until I read about the supposed name of Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard.

According to this article, Snow Leopard is an evolutionary update (hence the code name), with the focus being not on new features, but stability and reliability. And, it could be all Cocoa.

And, in the biggest news, 10.6 marks the end of PowerPC support. Which means that those machines would be stuck on 10.5 in perpetuity.

While I would love to believe this, I don’t know. Seems a bit soon to end support for PowerPC machines. Plus, all Cocoa I don’t see happening for a while, if at all.

I guess we will find out tomorrow, but this sure does make WWDC a lot more interesting, at least for me.